Investors
People who put their own money into the companies we follow, those backing the most of the current VP50 first.
106 investors
| Investor | About | HQ | Deals | VP50 | Notable portfolio | Latest deal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elad Gil | Co-founder and Chairman, Color Health | — | 40 | 9 | Anduril, Stripe, Saronic | Sep 2026 |
| Lachy Groom | Co-founder, Physical Intelligence | — | 9 | 5 | Anduril, Hadrian, Baseten | Feb 2025 |
 Sam Altman | Co-founder and CEO, OpenAI | San Francisco, US | 20 | 4 | OpenAI, Neuralink, Stripe | Jan 2025 |
 Jeff Bezos | Co-founder and co-CEO, Prometheus | — | 10 | 4 | Prometheus, Figure AI, Physical Intelligence | Jun 2026 |
| Naval Ravikant | Co-founder and Chairman, AngelList | — | 9 | 4 | Perplexity, Polymarket, Vercel | Apr 2024 |
 Greg Brockman | Co-founder and President, OpenAI | — | 5 | 4 | OpenAI, Baseten, Replit | Mar 2023 |
 Peter Thiel | Chairman, Palantir Technologies | — | 13 | 3 | OpenAI, Stripe, Etched | Aug 2026 |
| Nat Friedman | Head of Product, Meta Superintelligence Labs | Menlo Park, US | 11 | 3 | ElevenLabs, Perplexity, Vercel | May 2024 |
 Elon Reeve Musk | CEO and product architect, Tesla | Texas, US | 7 | 3 | OpenAI, Stripe, The Boring Company | Apr 2018 |
| Daniel Gross | Co-lead of Meta Compute, Meta | — | 6 | 3 | ElevenLabs, Perplexity, Notion | Apr 2024 |
| Balaji Srinivasan | Founder, Network School | — | 3 | 3 | Etched, Perplexity, Polymarket | Jun 2024 |
| Mustafa Suleyman | CEO, Microsoft AI | — | 3 | 3 | ElevenLabs, Baseten, Applied Intuition | Mar 2024 |
 Dylan Field | Co-founder, CEO and Chair, Figma | — | 7 | 2 | Baseten, Perplexity, OpenSea | Apr 2024 |
| Stanley Druckenmiller | Chairman and CEO, Duquesne Family Office | New York, US | 7 | 2 | Etched, Perplexity, Addepar | Jan 2026 |
| Adam D'Angelo | Co-founder and CEO, Quora | — | 6 | 2 | Lovable, Lambda, Scale AI | Feb 2025 |
| Eric Schmidt | CEO and Executive Chairman, Relativity Space | — | 6 | 2 | Anthropic, Mistral AI, Reflection AI | Oct 2025 |
 Guillermo Rauch | Founder and CEO, Vercel | — | 5 | 2 | ElevenLabs, Perplexity, Supabase | Jan 2026 |
| Olivier Pomel | Co-founder and CEO, Datadog | — | 5 | 2 | Lovable, Replit, Hugging Face | Jul 2025 |
| Henry Kravis | Co-executive Chairman, KKR | New York, US | 4 | 2 | Kalshi, Applied Intuition, Semafor | Jan 2026 |
| Jessica Livingston | Founding Partner, Y Combinator | — | 3 | 2 | OpenAI, Rippling, Reddit | Mar 2017 |
| Reid Hoffman | Partner, Greylock | — | 3 | 2 | OpenAI, Applied Intuition, Alchemy | Mar 2024 |
 Amjad Masad | Co-founder and CEO, Replit | — | 2 | 2 | Etched, Perplexity | Jun 2024 |
| Garry Tan | President and CEO, Y Combinator | San Francisco, US | 2 | 2 | Perplexity, Lambda | Apr 2024 |
 Dustin Moskovitz | Board Chair and Co-Founder, Asana, Inc.; Co-founder and Chair, Open Philanthropy; Co-founder, Good Ventures | San Francisco, US | 14 | 1 | Anthropic, Helion Energy, Asana | Mar 2024 |
| Jared Leto | Lead vocalist, Thirty Seconds to Mars | — | 6 | 1 | Replit, Robinhood, Wish | Mar 2026 |
| Aaron Levie | Co-founder and CEO, Box | — | 4 | 1 | Stripe, Instacart, Gusto | Jun 2014 |
| Frank Slootman | Chairman, Snowflake | — | 4 | 1 | Fireworks AI, Miro, NinjaOne | Mar 2024 |
| Paul Buchheit | — | — | 4 | 1 | Perplexity, Instacart, DoorDash | Mar 2023 |
 Sam Bankman-Fried | Founder and former CEO of FTX; currently an incarcerated federal prisoner serving a 25-year sentence (since Mar 28, 2024) | Federal Correctional Institution, US | 4 | 1 | Anthropic, Robinhood, Semafor | May 2022 |
| Yuri Milner | Founder, DST Global | — | 4 | 1 | ByteDance, Brex, Flexport | Jun 2018 |
| Andre Iguodala | Co-founder and Managing Partner, Mosaic General Partnership | — | 3 | 1 | Whatnot, Dapper Labs | Sep 2021 |
| DJ Patil | General Partner, GreatPoint Ventures | — | 3 | 1 | Baseten, Figma | Apr 2022 |
| Jaan Tallinn | Co-founder and Board Member, Future of Life Institute | — | 3 | 1 | Anthropic, Oura | Apr 2022 |
| Jeff Wilke | Co-Executive Chairman and Co-founder, Re:Build Manufacturing | — | 3 | 1 | Deel, Colossal Biosciences | Jan 2025 |
| Kevin Hartz | General Partner, A* | San Francisco, US | 3 | 1 | Polymarket, OpenSea, Flock Safety | May 2024 |
| Tobi Lütke | Co-founder and CEO, Shopify | — | 3 | 1 | Perplexity, OpenSea | Apr 2024 |
| Alexis Ohanian | Founder, Seven Seven Six | — | 2 | 1 | Deel, Impossible Foods | Sep 2020 |
 Brett Adcock | Founder and CEO, Figure AI | Palo Alto, US | 2 | 1 | Figure AI | May 2023 |
 Fred Ehrsam | Co-founder and CEO, Nudge | — | 2 | 1 | Neuralink, Dapper Labs | Jul 2021 |
 Joe Gebbia | Chief Design Officer of the United States, National Design Studio | Austin, US | 2 | 1 | Polymarket | May 2024 |
 Mati Staniszewski | Co-founder and CEO, ElevenLabs | London, UK | 2 | 1 | Lovable | Jul 2025 |
| Paul Graham | Co-founder, Y Combinator | — | 2 | 1 | Replit | Sep 2025 |
 Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Co-founder and CEO, Klarna | Stockholm, Sweden | 2 | 1 | Lovable, Klarna | Jul 2025 |
 Alexandr Wang | Chief AI Officer, Meta | — | 1 | 1 | Fireworks AI | Mar 2024 |
 Aravind Srinivas | Co-founder and CEO, Perplexity | — | 1 | 1 | ElevenLabs | Jun 2023 |
 Barry Silbert | Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Group | — | 1 | 1 | Kraken | Mar 2014 |
 Erik Bernhardsson | Co-founder and CEO, Modal | New York, US | 1 | 1 | Lovable | Feb 2025 |
| Fidji Simo | Advisor, OpenAI | — | 1 | 1 | Deel | Oct 2021 |
 Paul Copplestone | Co-founder and CEO, Supabase | — | 1 | 1 | Lovable | Jul 2025 |
| Thomas Wolf | Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face | — | 1 | 1 | Lovable | Feb 2025 |
